The website for all your green packing bags needs

Green Packaging

Green packaging offers a environmentally friendly packaging solution to help protect
your product and the environment. Recycled or recyclable, the green alternatives to
conventional packaging are:

Biodegradable:

Biodegradable products disintegrate through the action of existing by nature and
without artificial aid micro-organisms, such as bacteria or fungi over a period of time.
Biodegradable bags are usually made from plant or animal sources. Examples of
biodegradable include paper, vegetable scraps and some are made from corn starch.

Degradable:

Degradable plastics are oil based and degradation happens through chemical reactions
rather than naturally, so they can brake down in an anaerobic environment into water,
carbon-dioxide and plant materials and animal waste used as fuel.

Compostable:

Very similar to biodegradable plastic but "greener". For plastic to be considered as
compostable, it must be able to break down into CO2, biomass and water in the same
period of time as paper. Compostable plastic also needs to look like compost, should
not produce any hazardous material and should be able to support plant life. It is
normally made from plant materials such as corn starch, potato, cellulose, soy and sugar.

News

A Health Board is working to educate the public to bring their medicines with them
when they attend for surgery.

As part of the of this education, Health Supplies now stock green plastic bags for
transferring patient's own medicines.

Already carried on most emergency ambulances across Wales, green packaging is also
potentially used by pre-op assessment areas.

These environmentally-friendly bags, with space for a patient's name, help remind
patients to bring their medicines with them when they attend for surgery or can
keep an emergency admission patient's medicines together before being transferred
to an admitting ward.

A Pharmacist explained the importance of using the bags: "Getting the drug chart
right is crucial and a medication/medical review and fine adjustment can happen
more safely with an accurate drug history."

On hospital discharge, the patient can then have only one bag of 'medicines to take
home' avoiding having bags of discontinued medicines in the cupboard at home which
can be confusing for patients, potentially causing a medication-related readmission.

For the latest on the packaging industry read the news on
polythene bags.